TapDancing news

Jean Dujardin's tap-dancing lessons for The Artist

stv.tv - Jan 25, 2012
... 'OSS 117' and Jean admitted he got his inspiration from Hollywood legend Paul Newman. He explained: "I adore Newman. His elegance was so relaxed--chewing gum, opening his jacket, the tie hanging." Jean Dujardin's tap - dancing lessons for The Artist.

The Daily Item: From rap to tap, Tech's got talent

Daily Item - Jan 26, 2012
LYNN - From rapping to tap dancing, Lynn Tech students and teachers showed off their artistic sides at the school's first-ever talent show Wednesday night. More than a dozen performers sang and danced to a crowd of well over 100 cheering Lynn ...

Tap-Dancing Cat Chases Light (VIDEO)

Huffington Post UK - Jan 25, 2012
Anyway, we mention this particular cat-teasing technique because a YouTuber has recently uploaded an absolute cracker of a cat-chasing-the-light video, making her ginger puss scrabble around the floor like he's tap-dancing, desperate to pounce on this ...

Tap Dancing - premium items on eBay

Vintage African Americana Black Dancin Ballerina Man Tap Dancing jig limberjack

DEIN PERRY'S TAP DOGS DVD NIGEL TRIFFITT TAP DANCING

FAYARD NICHOLAS SIGNED TAP DANCING NICHOLAS BROS DECEAS

>> Go to all great Tap Dancing deals on eBay

Tap Dancing books

Roscoe Riley Rules #5: Don't Tap-Dance on Your Teacher

by: Katherine Applegate

Roscoe Riley doesn't mean to break the rules
Don't Tap-Dance on Your Teacher
Rat-tat-TAT!

Tap shoes make the best noise ever! But tap dancing? The big boys say that's just for girls. Roscoe promised to tap in the school talent show. When the teasing starts, will he keep his word?

>> More info on Amazon

Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History

by: Constance Valis Hill
Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap--the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form, exploring all aspects of the intricate musical and social exchange that evolved from Afro-Irish percussive step dances like the jig, gioube, buck-and-wing, and juba to the work of such contemporary tap luminaries as Gregory Hines, Brenda Bufalino, Dianne Walker, and Savion Glover.
In Tap Dancing America, Constance Valis Hill, herself an accomplished jazz tap dancer, choreographer, and performance scholar, begins with a dramatic account of a buck dance challenge between Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Harry Swinton at Brooklyn's Bijou Theatre, on March 30, 1900, and proceeds decade by decade through the 20th century to the present day.
>> More info on Amazon

>> Go to all Tap Dancing books